Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft launched MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a specialized AI model designed to find vulnerabilities (weaknesses that attackers can exploit) in complex code, along with Perception, a new AI cybersecurity platform that uses teams of agents (AI systems that can take independent actions) to automate security tasks like identifying and fixing bugs. The company claims these tools outperform competitor models from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, and will help enterprise defenders detect and remediate security issues much faster than manual processes.